"The Chinese may have been willing to overlook the foul-up as their National Anthem was introduced as that of "the Republic of China" - the other name for Taiwan - the part of China that has rebelled and broken away from the mainland and sought security from the United States." (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4929066.stm)
This paragraph of Jonathan Beale's otherwise good story of the Falun Gong protester at the Washington D.C. meeting of Bush and Jintao deserves a correction. Anyone who has done even the most basic research into the history of the China-Taiwan dispute knows that Taiwan never "rebelled" or broke away from the mainland and to say so in this article is to regurgitate the Chinese government's own propaganda - something I would hope the BBC would have the decency to avoid. I'll here avoid pedantically recounting the real story behind Taiwan's separateness from the mainland as the information is easily accessible online - wikipedia.org being the most obvious - but it deserves a correction or the BBC will have become nothing but a tool of China's authoritarian ways. I can almost see it: next, in an article about Tibet, they'll be stating that PRC troops "liberated" it from "bourgeois oppression." Please...
